Additional Resources
The Mind-Game Film: Distributed Agency, Time Travel, and Productive Pathology by ISBN: 9780203879559Date: 2021-03-28This book represents the culmination of Thomas Elsaesser's intense and passionate thinking about the Hollywood mind-game film from the previous two decades. In order to answer what the mind-game film is, why they exist, and how they function, Elsaesser maps the industrial-institutional challenges and constraints facing Hollywood, and the broader philosophic horizon within which American cinema thrives today.
Now and Then We Time Travel: Visiting Pasts and Futures in Film and Television by ISBN: 9780786496792Date: 2017-01-11More than 400 films and 150 television series have featured time travel--stories of rewriting history, lovers separated by centuries, journeys to the past or the (often dystopian) future. This book examines some of the roles time travel plays on screen in science fiction and fantasy. The author discusses philosophical questions about time travel, such as the logic of timelines, causality (what's to keep time-travelers from jumping back and correcting every mistake?) and morality (if you correct a mistake, are you still guilty of it?).
Time-Travel Television: The Past from the Present, The Future from the Past by ISBN: 9781442255760Date: 2015-10-08From Doctor Who and Quantum Leap to the multiple incarnations of Star Trek, time travel has been a staple of science fiction television for more than fifty years. Time-Travel Television: The Past from the Present, the Future from the Past surveys the whole range of time travel stories on the small screen. The essays in this collection explore time travel series both familiar (Babylon 5, Stargate SG-1) and forgotten (The Time Tunnel, Voyagers ), as well as time-travel themed episodes and arcs in series where it is not central, such as Red Dwarf, Lost, and Heroes.
Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction by ISBN: 9780883189351Date: 1993-02-01Explores the ideas of time travel from the first account in English literature in 1733 to the latest theories of physicists such as Kip Thorne and Igor Novikov. Topics include the history of time travel in fiction; the fundamental concepts of time, spacetime, and the fourth dimension; the speculation.
Time on TV: Narrative Time, Time Travel and Time Travellers in Popular Television Culture by ISBN: 9781838609719Date: 2016-06-22From early examples such as Star Trek and Sapphire and Steel to more contemporary shows including Life on Mars and The Vampire Diaries, time has frequently been used as a device to allow programme makers to experiment stylistically and challenge established ways of thinking. Time on TV provides a range of exciting, accessible, yet intellectually rigorous essays that consider the many and varied ways in which telefantasy shows have explored this subject, providing the reader with a greater understanding of the importance of time to the success of genre on the small screen.
Time Travel in Popular Media by ISBN: 9780786478071Date: 2015-03-27In recent years numerous films, television series, comic books, graphic novels and video games have featured time travel narratives, with characters jumping backward, forward and laterally through time. This collection of new essays locate time travel narratives within their cultural, historical and philosophical contexts. Texts discussed include Doctor Who, The Terminator, The Georgian House, Save the Date, Back to the Future, Inception, Source Code and others.
Tragic Time in Drama, Film, and Videogames by ISBN: 9781137585257Date: 2016-11-23This book explores how classical and Shakespearean tragedy has shaped the temporality of crisis on the stage and in time-travel films and videogames. In turn, it uncovers how performance and new media can challenge common assumptions about tragic causality and fate.
- "Why did you have to turn on the machine?": The Spirals of Time-Travel Romance
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- Decompressing Modernity: South Korean Time Travel Narratives and the IMF Crisis
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- Exploring Time Travel Rules in Time Travel Films
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- Extraordinary Television Time Travel and the Wonderful End to the Working Day
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- Oedipus Multiplex, or, The Subject as a Time Travel Film: Two Readings of "Back to the Future"
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- Paradox Lost: Time Travel and Free Will in the Television Show Lost
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- The Popularity of Time Travel in Contemporary Media: Being Erica and Time Travel as Individualised Consumer Choice
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- The Salvific Power of Friendship, Memory, and Time in Augustine’s Confessions and in the Revived Doctor Who
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- Seeing Around the Next Corner: The Politics of Time Travel Surveillance Cinema
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- Terminators, Monkeys and Mass Culture: The Carnival of Time in Science Fiction Films
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- Time-Traveling Image: Gilles Deleuze on Science-Fiction Film
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- CW Is Open to All: Post-Difference Representation and Hegemonic Time-Travel Narratives in DC's Legends of Tomorrow
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- Nostalgia and Post-2005 British Time Travel Dramas: A Semiotic Analysis of a Television Genre Cycle
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- Out of Time: Temporal Performativity and Resistance in Popular American Film, Television, and Theater
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- Remembering the Future: Time Travel Narratives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
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- Timeless or Timeliness? Examining Ideology in NBC's Timeless
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- Time Travel: The Story with a Thousand Faces
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- Viewing and Viewing Again: Film Narrative and the Time-Travelling Spectator
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- “To a World Without Winden”: Unraveling the Threads of Narrative Complexity in Hybrid Time-Travel Television
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Selected Films on Kanopy
La Jetée (dir. Chris Marker, 1962)
"Chris Marker, filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, and now videographer and digital multimedia artist, has been challenging moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his complex queries about time, memory, and the rapid advancement of life on this planet. Marker’s LA JETÉE is one of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made, a tale of time travel told in still images."
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The Visitors (dir. Jean-Marie Poiré, 1993)
"In 1122, a brave solider and his right hand man are sent to the future by a sinister witch and an absent-minded wizard. Hilarity ensues as they try to find their way back to their own time while dealing with confusion and chaos of 21st century France."
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Donnie Darko (dir. Richard Kelly, 2001)
"Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a disturbed adolescent from a semi-functional, upper-middle class family, gifted with a sharp intellect and vivid imagination - but he's also a bit weird. Donnie's off his medication and when his boredom is obliterated by a falling airline engine, he becomes increasingly delusional and convinced the world will end in 28 days. Aided by an imaginary friend, he embarks on an increasingly crazed series of actions, which horrify his teachers, scare his parents and amaze his friends."
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The Long Walk (dir. Mattie Do, 2019)
"An old scavenger living on the fringes of a near-future society exploits a ghostly companion’s ability to traverse time, hoping to prevent his mother’s suffering from a terminal illness."
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